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Bismuth
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Developing film is now considered a "specialist skill" here in Switzerland and the last time I heard it costs about CHF140 (R1130 - that's not a mistake) to develop a 36 exposure film. Could buy a new Canon 550d for what it costs to develop 5 films.
To shoot film here, now, would need an DAMN cute cat.
It appears I better get a quote before having the film developed, then again, they did have an RCS counter in the shop, thought it was to buy cameras, not develop film. Yeah I still shoot film, develop myself and then scan, but I do develop and print manually every now and again, still have an old enlarger as well so have to put it through it's paces every now and again
Have a Lomo that I like to mess with, a Pentax ME F, Minolta x370n, Yashica TLR and then my latest addition a Nikon S2.
The best part of still shooting these old cameras especially the Pentax is that you can get good quality lenses at a really good price, and that is why I also have amongst others a Pentax digital because they kept the K mounts going through most of their models. You may not get auto focus always but when you shoot a lot of film with these older cameras you get use to manual focusing very quickly. And if you have a Sony digital the old Minolta lenses still fit the Sony bodies, I think it is the MD mounts that fits on Sony.
Forgot to say I think you are mentioning my previous thread about film. Unfortunately posts in a general photography forum like this one often end up in an argument about film V digital. I am not really interested in which is better as they are different beasts but I love film purely for the look it gives you. There is something about shooting black and white especially with older equipment that gives it a different look and feel. Portraits done on medium format black and white film is simply amazing. Medium format just lends itself to portrait photography of course.
Manual focusing is not a big deal for me if I have to do it, as I've found with the 2x extender I got recently. But as the subject here is generally not moving that fast, shouldn't be an issue, I think.
Haven't shot in B&W for awhile, there is a specific project I have in mind, which I want to shoot in B&W. Must just get around to doing it, also have never liked the way the labs develop B&W (quality etc.), and don't have my own setup yet. Maybe I will get setup to develop it at least, and then the labs can print/scan. Will see.
Was actually thinking of getting a second Z20 body, so that I can have another camera setup with another lens/film, as the case maybe, see some available on ebay for less than 1k... probably go up to that with VAT, duties, etc. (have that customs formula bookmarked).
Obviously when/if I do got digital, it will be Pentax due to the backwards compatibility of the lenses. For now I will stick with film, unless the processing costs become prohibitive.
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